Social Network Analysis Social Network Analysis (SNA) is the understanding of people and connection with regards to social networking, allowing us better insight in how we best interact to share information with each other. This can be measured between individuals, groups, organisations to name a few. This is relative in my field of study to [...]
Alex Horne (Comedian) – How to invent a word http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/features/alex-horne–how-to-invent-a-word-1900477.html Image sourced from: http://www.celebritybusinessspeakers.com/speaker-catalogue/alex-horne/ Alex Horne (2010) set himself a goal of 4 years to get a word or words in the dictionary. “I am going to scatter a handful of verbal seeds into the language. These will be new, original, freshly coined words or [...]
Thanks to Professor John Coleman, Director at Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory, he pointed me in the direction of a very interesting read on the origin of the word ‘Quiz’. And it was this that began to spark some thoughts in to how words that must have been used years ago meant something completely different to [...]
Despite having no success in getting in contact with Oxford English Dictionary themselves even after a few emails the only communication I got was on Twitter and they tweeted back (13th November 2013), “You can find more information about contributing to the OED here: oxford.ly/SEEvxn” I was keen to create a small post in this [...]
I need to make sure there is structure in this project and understanding of how words are formed. And in keeping with the collaboration aspect of this module it made sense to get in touch with professionals in the field of linguistics, philology and phonetics, so I put my focus on Oxford University with the [...]
The Question How influential is technology on the language we use in today’s society? The Context For the last year my Masters has been focused on influence and trust of the Internet and how as visual culture highlights, we can essentially influence the meaning of something by the way designers design and present it. As [...]
Following on from my post Collaboration with professional in linguistics philology and phonetics I connected with Viktor Pekar on LinkedIn, currently Research Scientist at University of Birmingham, but who in the past has been an Independent Consultant and Language Data Engineer for the Oxford University Press. He kindly agreed to work with me on this [...]
We must not forget that design on the web is to inform and communicate. With this it is the words, sounds and images used that achieve this successfully. As visual culture highlights, we can as designers essentially influence the meaning of something by the way we design and present it. Words are used to create [...]